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August 10, 2007

G115: Orioles 6, Red Sox 5

Red Sox - 000 000 050 - 5 9 0Orioles - 100 000 041 - 6 9 0

A rare blown save and loss from Jeemer (after Dimmer spit the bit).

It was a shame, since Dice pitched well (7-4-1-4-7, 113) and we had finally knocked Bedard out of the game and lit up the O's pen. Nice hits from WMP and Lugo in the 8th to get on the board and take a lead.

Dice is only three strikeouts away from tying Ken Brett's rookie club record of 155 K, set in 1970.

Bedard was named the American League Pitcher of the Month for July, the first Oriole to be chosen since Ben McDonald in April 1994. On July 31, Bedard held the Sox to two hits in six scoreless innings.

Haven't seen the line ups yet! Correction though Red - I show he gave up a two run bomb by Ortiz in the third!

Still, this guy has been spectacular in his last ten starts. That includes the start against the Red Sox on 7/31/2007 in which he went 6 innings of two hit ball and earned the win over Josh Beckett. In those ten starts he is 8 and 0 with a 2.27 ERA and is averaging 6.73 innings per start with a .86 WHIP. In other words he has been spectacular.

ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!ERIK BEDARD IS THROWING A SHUTOUT!!!

sorry im new here and sorry i dont have all the people on here backing me up when i voice my opinion. after all thats what this place is for. i dont like lugo, so you tell me where to put it,. thats kind.thanks for the fellow baloons and lolipops supprot you show the rest of the sox fans.i didt start shit, jesus.

I dunno, my elder generation can make a pretty good case for 78, 86, etc

Well, I'm old. I was 14 in 1978, so I dealt with both of them, and for me 2003 was the absolute rock bottom worst. in no small part because the players did no wrong. but they couldn't overcome their shit for brains manager.

I'm just too young to have seen any real horrid moments except for 03, so I haven't been weathered yet ;)

My conversion to the Red Sox happened in the summer of 03. My first experience with the team was having my heart crushed and watching the person I love having his heart ripped apart, shredded and stomped on.

Well, I'm old. I was 14 in 1978, so I dealt with both of them, and for me 2003 was the absolute rock bottom worst. in no small part because the players did no wrong. but they couldn't overcome their shit for brains manager.

Slightly older, so I dealt with the 75 Series (still the greatest 7 game series IMHO), the 78 collapse was agonizing because of Gerbil and the 86 was excruciating because we were 1 strike away but after the wild pitch you just knew it was going to go bad.

2003 though left me in a daze for two days. It also cost me a new remote for the basement TV since I threw it against the wall making many new pieces of broken plastic.

The Sox did every thing right but the stupid manager let the players down. It also was the first time that my daughter had felt the "curse".

I remember on the following Saturday talking to my niece and daughter as I made waffles, that the worst thing their dads had done was let them become Red Sox fans. Bucky "bleeping" Dent, the '86 world series etc. etc. were detailed for them with the words that next year may never come. 2003 made 2004 that much sweeter but man did it hurt.

Ditto. 2003 was my first ultra-serious year as a Red Sox fan - watching every game, following online etc. Prior to that, I would watch a bunch of games but wasn't as 'die hard' as 2003 became.

I don't even know how to describe the emptiness I felt in 2003. I was in Florida on vacation for basically all of the playoffs and it was such an amazing time, then with about a week left in the trip Boone crushed my hopes of driving over to Miami to see the Red Sox in the world series. I really felt desolate, empty for the remainder of the trip. I mean, clearly it was an awesome vacation, but I no longer had games to look forward to at night after getting back from the beach.

Game 7 2003 was Allan's 40th birthday. We were still in NYC, the whole ciy was electric with anticipation. It was the 1st series that Allan and I were ever on the same side. (No one knew but him.) It was so much fun.

We went to Union Square Cafe, our favorite place, had lunch at the bar. The two bartenders were wearing a Boston cap and a NY cap. This is not a sports bar, it's one of the city's top restaurants.

We were so sure it was going to go our way.

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I'm glad I went through 2003. If I had become a fan in 2004, what would that be? I'd never have been tested. I haven't shared much of Red Sox pain, but I did share that bit of it.

If anyone still checks this- nice words guys. 2003 definitely almost made me quit, but once there was a new manager, I felt like my heart could take another year ;). Worth it!

As for oki- well, he's definitely going to have pitched more innings than usual by the end of the year. That's why theo found bought gange, but if gange can't do his job, then we do what we have to, there's no other choice. I don't think tito's wasting oki on non critical situations, so it's either MDC or gange that has to come up big to save his arm a little. Trust me, the last thing I want is a tom gordon thang going.